Sentences with phrase «deliver land justice»

The interpretation of the Native Title Act 1993, through the High Court decisions in Yorta Yorta and Miriuwung Gajerrong, provide very limited forms of protection and recognition of Indigenous rights and creates a system that is limited in its capacity to deliver land justice to Indigenous Australians.

While Aboriginal people in Victoria have successfully fought for important mechanisms such as the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement and Traditional Owner Settlement Act, our failure to pay reparations for stolen children or stolen wages, deliver land justice, close the gap in life expectancy or prevent overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in prison, shows we have much to do to make amends and achieve equity.

Most of these issues have also been identified in Senator Siewert's Native Title Amendment (Reform) Bill 2011 (Cth) as being in need of reform to deliver land justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

How is the Australian Government going to deliver land justice for Aboriginal communities?

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Housing Justice Cymru has been working with the Church in Wales over the last three years to turn surplus land into affordable homes, with 30 being delivered so far.

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

What I remember from the TV show is that Woodward, then in his mid-50s, made for an unusual leading man, an obvious stranger in a strange land who strove to be polite at all times even as he delivered justice for strangers.

The victim of the attack, Geraldine, must learn how to survive, and so must her son and husband, but the book's scale is big — because the attack was on land with multiple jurisdictions, it questions how we deliver justice and what kind of revenge is justified.

Thuli Makama and Hilton Kelley will deliver keynote speeches, and Ikal Angelei will participate in a panel organized by Makama, «Land, Climate Justice, and Wildlife Conservation in Africa.»